Evil Apple: Jobs Worship Edition

Steve Jobs biopic is boring, but maybe Ashton Kutcher’s fans will like it | Montreal Gazette:

...Jobs, who co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak, seems more like a dictator, or a small child, who wants everyone to say “Yes” to him. He doesn’t want to hear any discouraging words, so it’s mildly amusing when he tells a designer that he should always give his honest opinion, not to hold back. Even though he talks about a device that will work right out of box, for plumbers and grandmothers in Dubuque, making a profit seems more important to him than anything else. Steve Wozniak seems to have had more of the ideas and done more of the work, while Jobs was a fast-talking hustler/salesman, who would blithely promise to produce more units than asked for, and more quickly, too, leaving Wozniak to pull those rabbits (Apples) out of a hat.

(When Jobs was still working for game maker Atari, he lacked the expertise to rework a video game. He got Wozniak to fix it for him. Jobs promised Wozniak $350, half of the $700 that he said he was getting for the work. In fact, Jobs received $5,000. If that’s how he treated his friends. . .) In an opening scene, Jobs introduces the iPod to Apple employees. The insistent music tells us that This Is An Important Event! and the employees look at him with stars in their eyes, as if he is some combination of Jesus, the Dalai Lama, their favourite pop star and the cutest kitten they have ever seen. This is just too much. And after seeing how nasty Jobs can be, it is darned near incomprehensible...